Zulifkar Ali among 8 leaders elected as National Executive members
Jammu Tawi, Jan 24: The sitting president of BJP J&K unit, Sat Pal Sharma was on Friday installed unopposed as the president of the Jammu Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the term 2024-2027. This would be his second term as the party’s Jammu Kashmir head.
No other nomination was filed for the post of president of J&K BJP except Sharma’s to pave the way for his unanimous election.
Sat Sharma has earlier served as the President of the party from 2016-2018. During the Assembly elections 2024, Sat Sharma was nominated as the working president of the party and later was nominated as the President of the J&K BJP. Now, Sat Sharma has been formally elected as the State President of J&K BJP.
Sanjay Bhatia, Returning Officer (RO) for State President’s election in presence of Saudan Singh, BJP National Vice-President and Shrikant Sharma, Observer for the organizational elections declared the result after the scrutiny of the papers submitted by Sat Sharma.
Moreover, former minister Ch. Zulfikar Ali from Rajouri, Kuldeep Raj from Hiranagar, Rajni Sethi from Jammu, Anwar Khan from Baramulla, Sunita Raina from Srinagar, Gopal Gupta (Mahajan) from Kathua, Rajinder Gupta from Rajouri and Arif Raja from Srinagar were elected as the 8 National Executive members.
Sharma, who was nominated as President of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of the party in November last year, filed his nomination papers for the president’s post on Thursday. He was the sole candidate to file the papers for the post before national returning officer Sanjay Bhatia, a former MP from Haryana appointed by the party high command to hold elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Speaking on the occasion, Sharma called upon workers to support him in strengthening the party in the Union Territory.
“I thank the entire leadership from the centre to the grass root workers for providing me with another opportunity and posing trust in me to lead the party in Jammu and Kashmir,” Sharma said after assuming the party chief’s role here.
Sharma, 63, was denied a party ticket in the recent assembly election. To compensate him, he was appointed as the working president of the party in September amid resentment over ticket distribution and later elevated to the post of president, replacing the party’s longest-serving J-K unit president Ravinder Raina.
Raina, who had succeeded Sharma in May 2018 and held the post for six-and-a-half years, has been made a member of the party’s national executive.
